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Often when us fans get into movies, cartoons, comics and toys it all becomes about the characters that pulled us into the show. Be it Star Trek, Ninja Turtles, Care Bears, My Little Pony, X-Men, and so many other amazing properties out there. We each find our way into those series, the world created around these characters and get lost. We find something that we personally connect too, which makes that world seem like it’s special to us and only us. No one will ever understand our world, because they could never see it from our eyes. Making each fan so different from the next one. The world of those characters, becomes so important to the fans in a whole, that people don’t often realize what

When I became a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan, I was only 11 years old. I did not realize that the age of 38 I would be sitting here still talking about Turtles to this day with other TMNT fans around the world. I never pictured that I’d get to meet so many people who’ve worked on TMNT either. I have to say it’s been the wonderful people behind the Ninja Turtles, which kept me a fan all these years. Which is why I highly encourage other TMNT fans to go out and meet these wonderful folk. I try to stand behind each of these talented people when they venture out on their own, which brings us to today’s story. Shellback Artworks, a Gallery, store and school that was opened in Wells, ME by one of those amazing guys.

In August 1994 I made a trip to Northampton, Mass with my mother and sister. We were only going to get photos of the outside of Mirage Studios, but found something so much more exciting to do. We learned of the Words & Pictures Museum. A museum owned by Kevin Eastman, and nicknamed by the residents as “The Turtle Museum”. Inside there was original TMNT art, other amazing comic artwork, areas where people could draw and even a store.

This is Youmacon… this is Youmacon, Youmacon, Youmacon! That’s right, it the week of Youmacon, which means it’s also Halloween and I’m just so excited to be returning to one of my favorite conventions of the year. A great staff, awesome talent and a big fun location. Fun panels and amazing concerts! In this write up I’ll share a bit about Youmacon 2014 and since Youmacon is ran by the same crew as Midwest Media Expo, I felt this was a great time to pull out one of the TMNT Panels I did at Midwest Media Expo 2015!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has so many different origins, stories, character growth and character designs. A lot of people always try to compare them to each other, at the same time they’re so different. IDW Publishing has been releasing their own version of the Turtles which is not like any other out there. With their own history for the characters, their own plots that don’t match up to any other series and their own way of handling very intense moments. Recently IDW made a lot of news with Donatello, that was only the build up for what is coming in issue 50. Here is a spoiler filled review of issue 50 from IDW TMNT.

IDW has made a big move with IDW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #44 as Donatello takes the beating of a life time from two of TMNT’s top known henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady. This has become the talk of the fandom all around the internet. Though the question is… did they Kill Donatello?!

No spoilers being given here. All I can say is that there is a page being passed around online that seems to answer this question. Yes we have seen the page, but would rather discuss the current issue itself.

Throughout the years of being a Ninja Turtle fan, my collection has been growing. Every year I get something new that joins the collection. Growing since 1989, I have over 500 Ninja Turtle toys out of package and over 300 in package, as well as books, animation cels, original comic art, scripts and so much more. To cover all of this on Cowabunga Corner is not something I really think I can do. Though I get a lot of questions about my collection, so I figured I could do random stories from time to time to share one item in my collection. This one is about an original art page from Image TMNT series.